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Christopher Paolini

Nacido: November 17, 1983 – Los Angeles, California, United States

Christopher Paolini is an American fantasy novelist best known for The Inheritance Cycle, beginning with Eragon, and later for To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. His work centers on epic fantasy and science fiction, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, and has been translated into numerous languages.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Christopher Paolini was born on November 17, 1983, in Southern California and grew up mostly in Paradise Valley, Montana. Homeschooled by his parents, he read widely, wrote poems and stories, and developed an early fascination with dragons after discovering Tolkien and other fantasy writers. The world of Eragon began as teenage daydreaming, but his imagination was unusually tactile as well as literary: to better understand the kind of world he wanted to depict, he forged knives and swords, made a bow, built survival shelters, tracked game, and camped in the Beartooth Mountains. That combination of voracious reading, practical experiment, and close attention to setting became a durable signature of his fiction. ((https://www.paolini.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ChristopherPaoliniBio.pdf))

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Just trying to answer those four questions led me to create the entire world and story of Eragon
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That just seemed silly. So, telepathy it was
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If I could adopt a fantastical animal, I would choose a werecat
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Four to five years was considered the absolute minimum—after that you were considered mature enough to start helping the order
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Writing the Inheritance Cycle was like training for and competing in the Olympics
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I put a system of magic in my books because I thought it would make the story more interesting
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My brain seems to work better with my fingers on a keyboard
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Angela is of the opinion that distances in Alagaësia vary according to the urgency of your trip
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Scrying is both an art and a science
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It was actually a dream
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